Stpatrick's Eve

London Chapman and Hall, 1845, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition. Illustrated by Phiz [title page]. -- Hardcover, dark green with elaborate gilt spine and front-cover decoration, all-edges-gilt, discreet vintage seller label. Condition: good (spine color change but still bright; hinge cracked; one plate foxed, others and some pages more lightly; previous seller pencilled notes). -- Overall, an attractive book… Read more about this item

1845. Illustrated by Phiz. London: Chapman & Hall, 1845. Original grey-green cloth decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of this children's book -- "It was on the 16th of March, the eve of St. Patrick, not quite twenty years ago..." -- modeled on the Christmas books of Charles Dickens, at that time quite the rage,… Read more about this item

London : Chapman & Hall, 1845. First edition : in the more elaborate and earliest binding. Clearly modelled on Dickens' treatment of social issues in his Christmas books, Lever tackles the Irish issue of absentee landlords - "a very pretty little volume ... dedicated to his children with a desire to inculcate this truth, 'that prosperity has as many duties… Read more about this item

London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Small 8vo, frontispiece, 203pp, numerous text illustrations after designs by Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz). In the original blind and gilt stamped dark green cloth, with gilt decorations and lettering. Bookseller label at front paste down, Walter Spencer, London; pencil notations at rear end paper on 1950 catalog listing of… Read more about this item

London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. All edges gilt. Gilt designs front cover and spine. Both covers blocked in blind with four harps in blind at the corners. Spine extremities frayed. Slightly squint. Quire G loosened but still attached. Etched frontispiece and three plates by PHIZ. Numerous wood-engraved text illustrations. One plate foxed and worn at edges, frontispiece lightly foxed, others… Read more about this item

London: Chapman And Hall, 1845. NCBEL III 943. Osborne I 275. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 203, [1]. 4 etched plates (incl. frontis.), wood-engraved title & numerous text illus. after designs by Hablot Knight Browne. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth, gilt edges (spine & corners chipped, front joint partly split, some dampstaining to upper margins)

GERMANY: Tauchnitz (Leipzig), 1870. Bound (presumably) by J.SOYARD whose name appears at base of spine. Brown leather spine over black and yellow marbled boards. Reasonably clean tight book but text has moderate spotting throughout and spine a bit rubbed.. Hardback. G++/No DW.

Chapman & Hall, 1845. 1st Ed. Unique little book with green cloth binding and gilt decorations, inside a green cloth board protector which fits inside a green cloth and half brown morocco slipcase with gilt on spine. Page ends are also gilt. Small chip on spine and at bottom of spine, otherwise fine. Illustrated by Phiz. Slightly… Read more about this item